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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?

Al Lewis

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
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Dinner Every Fifty Friday Kid Runway Sixty Sunset Take Use Wait
I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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Carnival Circus Eighteen Medicine Own Radio Show Work Year
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
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Audience Need Needs Radio Response Satisfaction Silent Television
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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Agriculture Country Down Food Organize Tobacco Union Worker
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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Accept Ago Lng Long Struggle Time Victory
I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
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Brag Contribute Did Have Know
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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Best Fail Failing Gave Long Opinion Shot
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
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Graduate More Mother Read Sense Struggle Understand Write
If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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Call Squatter Street Thieve Want
I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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Brain Good Memory Old Terrific
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
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Class Creative Forget Lesson Long More Rule Smarter Strong
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.
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Absolute Do Get Love Something Uniqueness Way
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.
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Capital Certain Civil Country History Junky Most Period Right War World
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
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Immigrant Life Mom Mother Motivated Peasant Women Work
America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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Country Deserve Get Keep Politics Struggle
I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoy Kid Love

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